Roy Miller's Blog, page 170
June 4, 2017
BookCon 2017: Kevin Hart: If at First You Don't Succeed, Fail, Fail Again
This content was originally published by on 4 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Even though he is only five foot four, actor, comedian, writer, and producer Kevin Hart has always lived large. Source link
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How Is a Debut Novel Like Lizzy Bennet?
This content was originally published by KATHLEEN A. FLYNN on 2 June 2017 | 1:15 pm. Source link Doesn’t this sound like publishing? Thousands of first novels come out every year, jockeying for media attention, bookshop space and public notice. They compete not only with each other, but also with everything else: from the “Odyssey”…
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BookCon 2017: First Picture Book from a First Daughter
This content was originally published by on 4 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link The former first daughter makes her picture book debut this month with “She Persisted” (Philomel), a collective biography of 13 women whose determined perseverance paved the way for their achievements. Source link
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Putting Cowboys — and Their Industry — in True Historical Context
This content was originally published by EDWARD DOLNICK on 2 June 2017 | 1:30 pm. Source link The easy-to-overlook people in that scene were the men on horseback toiling to herd the cattle along. These were cowboys, to this day among the reigning American icons. Christopher Knowlton’s aim in “Cattle Kingdom” is to place those…
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BookCon 2017: New Science Guys — and Gal!
This content was originally published by on 4 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Bill Nye has made a career of educating young minds about science, with (most famously) his Emmy Award–winning PBS show Bill Nye the Science Guy. Source link
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‘Call Me Ishmael’: A Serialized Version of Herman Melville’s Great Novel, via Apple Pencil
This content was originally published by SERGIO GARCIA SANCHEZ on 2 June 2017 | 1:45 pm. Source link Advertisement Book Review Sketchbook / graphic review By SERGIO GARCIA SANCHEZ JUNE 1, 2017 ImageCredit Sergio García Sánchez is the illustrator of Nadja Spiegelman’s “Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure.” His three-part graphic version of “Moby-Dick” will…
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BookCon 2017: Charles Brandt: Crime After Crime
This content was originally published by on 4 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link There were skeptics when “I Heard You Paint Houses” (Steerforth Press), Charles Brandt’s book about mob hit man Frank “The Irish” Sheeran, came out in 2004 with Sheeran’s claim he pulled the trigger on teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. Source link
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Satires of the Ultrarich, From One of Their Own
This content was originally published by GREGORY COWLES on 2 June 2017 | 2:30 pm. Source link The aura of gaudy glamour in Kevin Kwan’s books may seem like the stuff of soap operas, but it’s true to the world in which he was raised. Source link
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BookCon 2017: Back to Her Beginnings: Marie Lu
This content was originally published by on 3 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Despite two bestselling series under her belt—Legend and the Young Elites, both from Putnam—YA author Marie Lu hasn’t been to BookCon before. Source link
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1967: A Year in the Life of Idealism and Anarchy
This content was originally published by SHEILA WELLER on 2 June 2017 | 2:30 pm. Source link Photo A summer solstice celebration at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1967. Credit Ted Streshinsky/Corbis, via Getty Images IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD1967 and the Hippie IdeaBy Danny Goldberg336 pp. Akashic Books. $25.95. If one…
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